From: Jeffrey Hobbs <jeffrey.hobbs@scriptics.com>
Subject: Dr. Dobb's Tcl-URL! - weekly Tcl news and links (Feb  1)
Date: 2 Feb 2000 07:40:10 -0800

    Tcl2K: one final announcement was made.  The best opportunity to
    get your hands on the pulse of the developer community will be
    there, don't miss out!  February 14-18, Austin TX
        http://www.usenix.org/events/tcl2k/

    Expand v1.3, a macro expander for file processing is available
        http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=577258629
        http://www.cogent.net/~duquette/expand/

    tkbib 1.0 is a simple Tk app for editing LaTeX bib files
        http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=577258630
        http://vlsicad.cs.binghamton.edu/~pmadden/tkbib/

    Hobbs is looking for input on what users think are the most
    beneficial changes to Tcl in the last 18 months, and what should
    be the big focuses of the future "POLL"
        http://www.deja.com/=dnc/viewthread.xp?AN=577522633

    AlphaTk version 7.3b2, a programmer's text editor based on Alpha
    is announced
        http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=577521879
        ftp://ftp.ucsd.edu/pub/alpha/tcl/alphatk/

    How accurate can your timing be in Tcl?
        http://www.deja.com/=dnc/viewthread.xp?AN=576841593

    Gravereaux posts simple C code that would return a list of
    values to Tcl (using Tcl objects)
        http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=577060334

    Hobbs posts some code to help with composing digraph (accented)
    characters through a user-definable mechanism
        http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=577495674

    A helpful post for dealing with the option database comes
    from Miner
        http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=577901267

    Looking for Tcl/Tk on IBM OS/390 Unix?
        http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=578251269
        ftp://www.adabas.com/special/tcl-port-os390/

    Trying to handle animated GIFs?  See this thread with code samples
        http://www.deja.com/=dnc/viewthread.xp?AN=577388178

    Fellows hints at how to make a toplevel appear in a specific
    workspace when using CDE
        http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=578270801

    Ferrieux tells us how to handle a literal "|" in an exec, as well
    as dealing with those pipelines that given errant return values
        http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=578224885

    Kirsch releases assorted scripting goodies for Tcl
        http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=578056441
        http://wsd.iitb.fhg.de/~kir/agfthome/

    XBIT reaches v2.3, adding TWAIN support and more to an already
    extension image acquisition, processing and presentation package
        http://www.geocities.com/~chengye/soft.html


Everything you want is probably one or two clicks away in these pages:

    The "Welcome to comp.lang.tcl" message by Andreas Kupries
        http://www.westend.com/~kupries/c.l.t.welcome.html

    Larry Virden maintains a comp.lang.tcl FAQ launcher
        http://www.purl.org/NET/Tcl-FAQ/

    Scriptics maintains a highly organized Tcl resource center
        http://www.scriptics.com/resource/

    They also keep info to convince your boss Tcl is a good thing
        http://www.scriptics.com/scripting/

    NeoSoft has a comp.lang.tcl contributed sources archive
        http://www.neosoft.com/tcl/contributed-software/

    Cameron Laird tracks many Tcl/Tk references of interest
        http://starbase.neosoft.com/~claird/comp.lang.tcl/

    Cetus Links maintains a Tcl/Tk page with verified links
        http://www.cetus-links.org/oo_tcl_tk.html

    Findmail archives comp.lang.tcl.announce posts
        http://www.egroups.com/list/tcl_announce/


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